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  1. Gizmodo: Doctor Doom Shows Up to Support Seattle’s Surveillance Network. “Ahead of the upcoming Avengers: Doomsday movie, its titular supervillain apparently made a stop at Seattle City Council this week to endorse the city’s growing surveillance network.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/14/gizmodo-doctor-doom-shows-up-to-support-seattles-surveillance-network/
  2. Gizmodo: Man Arrested After Showing Up at Police Station With a Truck Full of Flock Cameras. “A New Mexico man, 44-year-old Jevon Martinez, took down 10 Flock camera systems himself on Wednesday, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Martinez livestreamed himself taking down at least one of the cameras, which he called ‘tyranny trees.’ In the stream, he also showed the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/gizmodo-man-arrested-after-showing-up-at-police-station-with-a-truck-full-of-flock-cameras/
  3. Gizmodo: Man Arrested After Showing Up at Police Station With a Truck Full of Flock Cameras. “A New Mexico man, 44-year-old Jevon Martinez, took down 10 Flock camera systems himself on Wednesday, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Martinez livestreamed himself taking down at least one of the cameras, which he called ‘tyranny trees.’ In the stream, he also showed the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/gizmodo-man-arrested-after-showing-up-at-police-station-with-a-truck-full-of-flock-cameras/
  4. Gizmodo: Man Arrested After Showing Up at Police Station With a Truck Full of Flock Cameras. “A New Mexico man, 44-year-old Jevon Martinez, took down 10 Flock camera systems himself on Wednesday, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Martinez livestreamed himself taking down at least one of the cameras, which he called ‘tyranny trees.’ In the stream, he also showed the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/gizmodo-man-arrested-after-showing-up-at-police-station-with-a-truck-full-of-flock-cameras/
  5. Gizmodo: Man Arrested After Showing Up at Police Station With a Truck Full of Flock Cameras. “A New Mexico man, 44-year-old Jevon Martinez, took down 10 Flock camera systems himself on Wednesday, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Martinez livestreamed himself taking down at least one of the cameras, which he called ‘tyranny trees.’ In the stream, he also showed the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/gizmodo-man-arrested-after-showing-up-at-police-station-with-a-truck-full-of-flock-cameras/
  6. Gizmodo: Man Arrested After Showing Up at Police Station With a Truck Full of Flock Cameras. “A New Mexico man, 44-year-old Jevon Martinez, took down 10 Flock camera systems himself on Wednesday, according to the Bernalillo County Sheriff’s Office (BCSO). Martinez livestreamed himself taking down at least one of the cameras, which he called ‘tyranny trees.’ In the stream, he also showed the […]

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/09/11/gizmodo-man-arrested-after-showing-up-at-police-station-with-a-truck-full-of-flock-cameras/
  7. > A Washington Post investigation found that at least 50 law enforcement officers nationwide have been charged with or accused of misusing Flock’s network of over 120,000 AI license-plate cameras, most often to stalk women without their knowledge, including wives, girlfriends, exes, or new partners of exes. The investigation centers on Marci Bakely, a Georgia woman whose ex-boyfriend, police chief Michael Steffman, searched her license plate roughly 600 times over 13 months before being arrested on stalking and harassment charges; he died by suicide in April before facing trial.

    Other documented cases include a Kansas police lieutenant fired for tracking his ex-wife and their children, a Florida officer who told his girlfriend “the police are already here” after threatening her with his gun, and a Wisconsin officer who used Flock to check whether his girlfriend had visited an abortion clinic. The Post found that Flock gives police departments wide latitude over oversight settings, with many agencies conducting minimal auditing, and in some cases officers continued using the system even after being flagged for misuse, while punishments varied widely due to a patchwork of state laws and no federal regulation. Flock has said abuse is “inevitable” given its scale but pointed to new voluntary “audit assistance” tools as a fix, while critics like the ACLU and Electronic Frontier Foundation argue basic safeguards, such as requiring a case number for every search, remain optional rather than mandatory.

    #aaronparnas #substack #uspol
    #uspolitics #flockcameras
    #licenseplatesurveillance
    #licenseplatereaders #stalking
    #policeofficer #policeinvestigation
    #marciblakely #georgia #kansas
    #florida #Wisconsin #aclu #eff
    #electronicfrontierfoundation

    open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar